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Canberra fans try to hijack NRL poll

The Herald Sun is reporting that one eyed Canberra Raiders supporters have blatantly tried to hijack The Daily Telegraph’s reader poll to find the NRL’s best player, posting messages on fansites to drum up votes for favourite son Todd Carney.
As at 2.55pm today Carney had a stunning 1408 votes – about a fifth of the total votes cast and almost double those of his nearest rival Braith Anasta.

Raiders fansite The Greenhouse is behind the rally cry, throwing up a post on the reader forum earlier today urging fans to back Carney.

What part of that doesn’t the Terrorgraph understand? Is it the voting part or the fact that he is from Canberra?

Anasta has had one good season (this one). Previously he was voted, by his peers, as the NRL’s most over-rated player on a number of occasions. At the present point in time I believe any NRL team would select Carney over Anasta (social proclivities aside).

Maybe they should be asking why both of them could finish ahead of Greg Inglis, but that doesn’t fit their agenda.

Wait, it’s “hijacking” a poll now to ask people who share your views to vote in it?

Someone’s going to have to explain that to me, because it seems that by that rationale every political party in every country without compulsory voting is trying to “hijack” their elections by encouraging their supporters to get out and vote.